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Num Sum is a folksonomy for spreadsheets.

Log in to Num Sum, make a spreadsheet, tag it, and share way.

Each entry (bookmark) on the front page has a link to the public account of the user, and also the links to the tags (unlike del.icio.us, these link to the general tag level, not the tag within the user level)

Also it doesn’t link to “?others who bookmarked this item” as not many people are going to bookmark someone else’s spreadsheet that often.

Features

Every bookmark has a blog code so the spreadsheet can be implemented into a blog post

Private entries

2 search boxes
-Search for a tag box
-General search box that searches in all fields

List of related tags for every tag

Tag cloud

You can leave a comment on someone’s spreadsheet (bookmark)

Where are the RSS feeds??

Blogsonomies

If you click on the bookmark title in del.icio.us, it takes you to the actual external website, if you do this in Num Sum it takes you to the permalink of the actual spreadsheet within Num Sum (this is where you view the spreadsheet).

NOTE: del.icio.us has a permalink for every bookmark (if you click on “and 2 other people…”), but it is not within the users account (so you don’t own the permalink)

But we are starting to see folksonomies that are pointing to authored bookmarks within the folksonomy database itself, so your account has permalinks similar to a blog post
…other services that do this are Tagifieds, Tagsurf, and using pasta with del.icio.us.

This way when someone leaves a comment on a bookmark, they are commenting on your own permalink not on the general permalink.

So these types of social bookmarking folksonomies are becoming generic communal blog spaces that are tied together in a web of tags….maybe blogsonomies!

This makes these tools very versatile, even though they all have a specific purpose (eg. Tagifieds is meant to be used as a bulletin board), you can use the bookmark to author any text you like (just like a blog post).
In the case of Num Sum the spreadsheet can be used for budgets, lists, keeping notes, contacts, shopping list, etc…

I really think soon someone will come up with a notesonomy (with a private/public option)….maybe webnote (apparently you can geo tag your notes)

Related posts:
del.icio.us for: + pasta vs. Tagsurf
Tagifieds: bulletin board folksonomy

Great post by Napsterization on comparing the URL incoming link search amongst the various RSS/Blog engines.

Check out the comparison chart…great to see the differing indexing methods and the type of data that is indexed, and much more…

Some points:

Duration of link counts

• Bloglines - forever (shows history of every incoming link)
• Technorati - only if still on the front (home) page
  (only counts incoming links from the blogs front page)
  (although it still matches keyword searches with posts that have fallen off the front page)

Alert/Watch list for incoming links

• Bloglines - No (the only one that doesn’t provide an RSS feed)

Duplication of posts

• Same posts may be indexed from multiple RSS feeds, ie. you may have 2 or more types of RSS feeds, or someone else may be re-syndicating your content
  …also Bloglines includes links to own blog

So Technorati can be used to view current activity (if links counts have fallen off the from page, it is considered not current), whilst Bloglines is consulted as a historical link count.

…more

Bloglines only shows results from a blog if it being subscribed to by someone using the Bloglines RSS Reader

Blogpulse - enter the “http://” part in a URL search to get proper results

Bloglines and Technorati both index blogroll links

…keep tuned for more of this 6 part series.

see my post on RSS engine indexing
…if the blogs RSS is not full-text then not all the possible incoming links will be found….and even though some engines like Technorati crawl HTML, it still may not help as the front page may only have an excerpt of the post.